Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aaron Swartz

The adults were completely wrong.

Elizabeth Olsen

I've never read a young adult novel, though. I'm sure I would love it, but I've never read one.

Art Spiegelman

Sometimes I don't feel like a functioning adult

Bertrand Russell

The sentiments of an adult are compounded of a kernal of instinct surrounded by a vast husk of education.

David Foster Wallace

Stated as an English sentence, of course, this is just a banal platitude-but the fact is that, in the day-to-day trenches of adult existence, banal platitudes can have life-or-death importance. That may sound like hyperbole, or abstract nonsense.

Moby

I was on food stamps until I was 18 and became an adult.

Ned Vizzini

The stuff adults tell you not to do is the easiest.

Gus Van Sant

When you get to be 23, 24 or 25, you start to freeze up and become an adult.

Jay London

They asked me what I thought about euthanasia. I said I'm more concerned about the adults.

Margaret Deland

nothing is as conventional as adolescence.

Henry Rollins

Adolescence is a plague on the senses.

Marcel Proust

L'adolescence est le seul temps o u' l'on ait appris quelque chose. Adolescence is the only time when we can learn something.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.

Lord Byron

So much alarmed that she is quite alarming

William James

The truth remains that, after adolescence has begun, "words, words, words," must constitute a large part, and an always larger part as life advances, of what the human being has to learn.